Fake punt from inside own 5-yard line burns Kansas

October 05, 2013|Tribune report

When former Notre Dame football coach Charlie Weis famously said that his teams would have "a decided schematic advantage," this can't be what he had in mind.

Weis, now the head coach at Kansas, watched Saturday as his team tried a fake punt despite facing fourth-and-19 from inside their own 5-yard line against Texas Tech. Kansas failed to convert and trailed the Red Raiders 30-10 in the third quarter.

Weis looked perplexed afterward, and it's possible that punter Trevor Pardula made the call to try the fake rather than receiving instructions from the sidelines. That didn't stop Weis' detractors from having a social-media field day, with video of the botched fake quickly being posted to YouTube.